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2838332 No.2838332 [Reply] [Original]

If scientists and mathematicians are so smart, why don't they have a stronger hand in politics?

America's never had a scientist president. What's up with that?

>> No.2838348

I wish there were more scientists in politics... I won't do it though. Fuck that noise.

>> No.2838343

Good scientists feel bad about lying.

>> No.2838351

Because they're too smart to go into politics.

>> No.2838355

>>2838343
So we react by standing by and watching it happen? That's just as bad. We're the rational people; we're supposed to be fixing shit.

>> No.2838360

Scientists and mathematicians know that the politicians get controlled by the corporations.

>> No.2838365

President Garfield came up with a proof of the Pythagorean theorem.

(premise of the thread is now debunked)

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2838367

>>2838332

>implying the christfags will allow a scientist to be president.

>> No.2838369

Because, if they did, we'd have a technocracy on our hands.

>> No.2838378

>>2838355

Oh yeah, lets stop all lying in the world. Thats real easy and doable, because thats what you'd need to do.

On the plus side though, we've found medication to make people feel more moral. So, if we get every politician to take that they will at least think about what they're doing.

>> No.2838382

>>2838378
What medication.

>> No.2838388

Because sects, religious or not, have been doing it for a very, very long time. Longer then science has records of being in existence.

And science is less concered with people then every fucking thing else.

>> No.2838401

>>2838388
But scientists in politics would shift the public view towards science, vastly benefiting society.

This will naturally trickle to funding and education.

>> No.2838406

Jimmy Carter was an engineer

he was also one of our worst presidents

I think science minds get too lost in the details and care too much about what the results will be. Politicians need to be men of action and balls, not so much brains.

>> No.2838407

>>2838367
Jimi Carter.....Did I miss something?

>> No.2838414

>>2838332
Jimmy carter is a Physics graduate

>> No.2838420

>>2838406
Engineer =/= scientist.

Also he was schooled at the Naval Academy, and that setting doesn't promote the conventional scientist mindset.

>> No.2838423

>>2838332
Because, and I'm making a sweeping generalization here, those with higher intelligence and more knowledge tend to be more self-conscious and uncertain about their personal beliefs.

Politics is not a place for reasonable people.

>> No.2838430

>>2838401

Not if it doesn't please the crowd, Spartacus.

Social manipulation is a thing of talent and practice.

And they've got entire lineages of practice at it. They're part of it from birth. You'd be hard pressed to name the families of science.

>> No.2838432

Angela Merkel was a physicist in her former life. The germans get everything right.

>> No.2838466

>>2838406

>he was also one of our worst presidents

He wasn't THAT bad

The only thing he really fucked up with was foreign policy and looking bad on TV